This chart is a huge part of the explanation of UK politics since 2010 - same for any metric you click on, see www.ft.com/content/704c... Fundamentals matter and it is still the economy, stupid.

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

Just a boy, standing in front of a political class, asking them to read @igmansfield.bsky.social's Seven Public Policy Rules of Thumb, this time on taxes:

🚨In this PiRM Episode: @pmkuhn.bsky.social is joined by @cjfinlay.bsky.social, who draws on his essay "Beware the Boomerang Effect" to dissect the profound legal and ethical challenges posed by "assassination as policy". open.spotify.com/episode/3BRc...

Here, here...I am with Lord Patten. Having publicly funded broadcasters as independent trusted news sources is so critical for limiting political polarization and maintaining a functioning democracy in the current context.

The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next. My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives. www.authoritarian-stack.info

🚨NEW PiRM Episode: @pmkuhn.bsky.social is joined by is joined by Prof. Ilan Baron, Professor in International Political Theory at SGIA, for a conversation on anti-Semitism, Israel, and the problem of proxy representation open.spotify.com/episode/2HCj...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

📘 NEU: Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft – 6., vollständig aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage (2025), mit Thomas Bernauer, Sylvia Kritzinger und Detlef Jahn. 📚 ISBN: 978-3-7560-1619-8 📖 Nomos Verlag @nomosverlag.bsky.social 🔗 Zum Buch im Nomos-Shop: lnkd.in/eeMPNEzu

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Top academic researchers leaving US amid funding cuts www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

📘 NEU: Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft – 6., vollständig aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage (2025), mit Thomas Bernauer, Sylvia Kritzinger und Detlef Jahn. 📚 ISBN: 978-3-7560-1619-8 📖 Nomos Verlag @nomosverlag.bsky.social 🔗 Zum Buch im Nomos-Shop: lnkd.in/eeMPNEzu

🚨NEW PiRM Episode: Peaceful by Design? The Return of Political Violence in Democracies. In this episode, @pmkuhn.bsky.social digs into the paradox at the heart of democracy: why systems built on peaceful disagreement are seeing rising levels of aggression. open.spotify.com/episode/6hgM...

🎧 Just dropped: In this new episode of Politics in the Rearview Mirror, @pmkuhn.bsky.social speaks to Dr David Andersen and Dr Neil Visalvanich to unpack the mechanics and meaning of the US government shutdown open.spotify.com/episode/4i6l...

Has always been and will always be…und can ignore it for a while, but economics will eventually come back and bite.

Viele halbleere Einfamilienhäuser: Davon wird es nach Abschaffung #Eigenmietwert noch mehr geben. Und nochmals mehr, falls die vom Bund angedachte neue Grundstückgewinnsteuer kommt. Gaga-Steuerpolitik. www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/n...

@robfordmancs.bsky.social argues that the unpopularity of Reform's proposals offer the government an opportunity - but I'd add that they will squander that if they introduce what just looks like a watered-down version of those proposals.

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)! 🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée! Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland! Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

Sunday afternoon at the lake -Afagato weather with view…

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

"Werden Häuser noch teurer?", fragt der Tagi bezüglich #Eigenmietwert. Meine Antwort: Selbstverständlich. Wenn man Steuern senkt auf ein inelastisch angebotenes Gut, dann steigt dessen Marktpreis. Wie stark wäre der Preisschub? Eine grobe Schätzung. 🧵 1/ www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eigenmietwer...

This is shocking…

From the current issue: “Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914” by Luke Blaxill (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social), Gary Hutchison (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social), @pmkuhn.bsky.social, @gidoncohen.bsky.social, Nick Vivyan (@durham-university.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Motherfucking wind farms…

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

From the current issue: “Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914” by Luke Blaxill (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social), Gary Hutchison (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social), @pmkuhn.bsky.social, @gidoncohen.bsky.social, Nick Vivyan (@durham-university.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Thanks to @pmkuhn.bsky.social for inviting me onto our departmental podcast to talk about the UK Strategic Defence Review, the space dimensions of it in particular and some wider issues in UK defence. open.spotify.com/episode/52UK...

Check out the forthcoming JCR article by Anouk Rigterink and my PhD student @wangyinzhao.bsky.social 👇

Check out the forthcoming JCR article by Anouk Rigterink and my PhD student @wangyinzhao.bsky.social 👇

Explore incidents of election violence in 19th Century England and Wales on our interactive map at victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive-.... Read short descriptions, see how violence changed over time, and follow the historical newspapers sources to discover more.

Explore incidents of election violence in 19th Century England and Wales on our interactive map at victorianelectionviolence.uk/interactive-.... Read short descriptions, see how violence changed over time, and follow the historical newspapers sources to discover more.

From current issue: “Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914” by Luke Blaxill (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social), Gary Hutchison (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social), @pmkuhn.bsky.social, @gidoncohen.bsky.social, Nick Vivyan (@durham-university.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

A new method to estimate treatment effects on long-term outcomes that uses intermediate outcomes to correct for selection bias, relaxes assumptions of popular surrogate estimators, from Susan Athey, Raj Chetty, and Guido Imbens https://www.nber.org/papers/w33817

📣 New episode alert! CIPB member @pmkuhn.bsky.social explores the Madman Theory—can presidential unpredictability, from Nixon to Trump, really win concessions? Tune in for the data-driven verdict: open.spotify.com/episode/0cov...

📢📢📢 JOBS: 4 postdocs 📢📢📢 Uni Münster has opened a call for 4! postdoc positions. I'm involved in one hiring and really hope that suitable candidates (in particular quants) apply! Why would you apply? Check out @thiloalbers.bsky.social FAQ! sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe...

We're hiring! Two tenure-track openings for Assistant Professors in Political Science or International Relations. Sharing = 🙏❤️ www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply. https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017 A 🧵 with findings

Our article providing the first systematic view of the extent of election violence in England and Wales between 1832 and 1914 is out in print! 👇 Come for the cool charts and read the fascinating story about roughs, an actor so far largely ignored in historical research on 19thC election violence.

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

The reason why parents would rip the country apart is because there is no widely available and accepted apprentices routes into many white collar jobs. Setting those up and shifting the culture takes time and money, things the UK does not have.

Home Office once again seeking to reduce UK exports of higher education. As if the sector wasn't in enough trouble already (and not getting the attention such as important one should get). www.ft.com/content/f441...

In light of the immigration crackdown on graduate students and professors with documented legal status in the United States, here is an open letter to APSA which you can sign to show support to our colleagues facing tremendous uncertainties. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

End of term means time to tackle the shower room floor…

This is a really interesting thread on the shifting correlation between judge ideology and rulings involving President Trump between the first and second term -- less partisan rulings this term compared to the first due to clearer legal violations.

A common problem in most public sector organisations in the UK...

Spoke to @5live.bsky.social Nicky Campbell on civil service performance before the PM’s speech

No Citizenship for Refugees? The Politics Behind Labour's Immigration Policy Announcement In the latest episode of Politics in the Rearview Mirror, @pmkuhn.bsky.social and I talk about @teamlabouruk.bsky.social decision to deny citizenship to refugees You can it 👇 tinyurl.com/bde9wfnh

In 4 year American Politics researchers will have a much better understanding of what it is like to do quantitative research on countries in the global south.